Awesome photos!! I love the hover-bear ones.
Last time I was in Jellystone I was riding in the back seat of my friends Subaru wagon. At one point were stopped in traffic waiting for bison to clear the road. One bison approached the car and came up to my window about two feet away and was just looking right at me. I was going to take a photo, and just then the hell hounds in the back of the car woke up and started howling at the beast. I threw myself to the other side of the car thinking I was about to be gored. Thank god the bison took off and did not come through the window.
I love Yellowstone!
Growing up in the Appalachians, I've experienced that with everything from bear to deer to ring-necked pheasants in rural areas, but I've also had that encounter twice with my dogs, with commercial livestock. One time, we were cruising beside a poultry truck on the interstate. Our male Dachshund was sitting in my wife's lap, trying to figure out just what it was inside that ventilated trailer we were next to, when one of the chickens lifted his beak out from under his wing and stared right at our dog with his beady little black eye.
Pandemonium ensued. To this day, he has a major jones for anything that has wings. The second time it happened, it was almost worse, yet twice as comical. His sister from the litter - who, it turned out, had some fat beagle genes in her - was in the back of the truck, staring out at the horse trailer we were pacing. The horse was as still as a stone until he realized he was being stared at doing 80 up the freeway, then looked at my dog, did one of those curl-back-the-wiggly-lips-and-bare-the-teeth numbers like Mr. Ed saying, "Oh, Wil-
b-u-r-r-r-r-r!". I've never seen 40 pounds of mutt A: go that bug-f*ck crazy in a micro-second, nor have I ever seen B: a dog that could literally grip the inside of the cab moulding like she was Spiderman, and try to chew through the window glass. She went INSANE. It took her
hours to get over that. We had to give her half a Dramamine so she'd stop hyperventilating. LMAO
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